The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-01-20


thrown TO you after you are deadi Do as
/ you please, but as for myself, with pardon
/ for all my sins offered me now and all the
| Joys of time and eternity offered me
| now, instantly take them rather than run
the risk Of such other chance as wise men
think they can peel of or twist out Of
a Scripture passage that has for all the
| Christian centuries been interpreted an
other way.
You say: 81 do not like Princeton the
ology or Andover theology" l do not ask
you on board either Of the great men-of-
war, their portfolios filled with great siege
guns of ecclesiastical battle. But do ask
you TO take the one plank of the Gospel
that you do believe in and strike out for
the pearl-strung beach of Heaven.
Says some other man: al would attend
TO religion if / was quite sure about the
doctrine of election and free agency, but
that mixes me all up" Those things used
TO bother me, but have no more pcrplex-
ity about them. for ] say TO myself: III l
love Christ and live a good, honest, useful
life. am elected to be saved; and if l do
not love Christ and live bal life will be
damned. and al the theological semiuaries
of the universe can not make it any differ
emit" ] flounGcrcl along while in the sea
of sin and doubt, and it was as rough as
the Mediterranean on the fourteenth night
when they threw the grain overheard; but
saw there was mercy for a sinner, and
that plank | took. and l have been warm
ing myself by the bright fire on the shore
for three decades.
While am talking to another man about
hi soul he tells me: Il do not become a
Christian because / do not believe there is
any hell at all" All! don't youi Do all
the people, of all beliefs and no belief at all,
of good morals and bad morals 60 straight
TO a happy Heavenf Do the holy and the
debauChed have the same dcstinationsl At
midnight, in a hallway, the owner Of a
house and burglar meet each other, and
they both fire, and both are wounded, but
the burglar dies in five minutes and the
owner of the house lives a week after. VIII
the burglar be at the gate of Heaven
waiting when the house-owncr comes inI
viii the debauChe and the libertine go
right in among the families of Heavenl
wonder if Herod is playing on the banks
of the River OF Life with the children he
massacrcd. wonder if Charles Guiteau
and John Wilkes Booth are up there shoot
ing at Il mark. do not now cOntrUvert it,
although | must say for such miserable
Heaven | have no admiration. But the
Bible docs not say: believe IN perditiOn
AMI be saved
Because all are saved, according to your
theory. that ought not TO keep you from
loving and serving Christ. DO not refuse
to come ashore because all the others, ac-
cOrdmg to your theory, are gong TO get
ashore. Nou may have d different theory
about chemistry, ahuut astronomy, about
o+.,t I,,t Won, .,,.l. ,t tho,a ,,,, h;,,ao,,d
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M, ,,.l.,. va, l,,,,,., lf,ou ha,a,,ot n
,,f,la SIM, f4.,i,,,,.d il, the thno1ogiraI drv
dnai.. =, i,,.i,,,, ,.nn J., WHARFAGE von have
nj L.a.t ,I,,,,. cSopa On broken nieces
of tl,n..t,,o
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d., J.. .T-,I ,-;,... ,.,,,r bua,t 10 cod and
i,in -a;,.. ,.l,3r..h ,,,l,,.r.. tho tIermometcr
noe. l.t',lar t}.r fft,-in thn shade
. But a, NOT l,.li.vn IN hs,itism,u Come
in Inn mt Il s,,3 sottla tI,,t ,naftar after
- .pn. IL, ,.., 49,, ,,,a,,,, i,,,,,,.i.t
on. Chr.t,.,,s,o TEan come in and show
~, IN. rr,,l ,.,.,,,,,,ln lo,r ,,,,fe.sors
cI.rhi tne1t ,Iut do,,t believe in the
or Tes,ani,utr itcp come in ON the
NJ. Nm. "a - liz, tho Rock oF Po.
n,g,,.,., m como ~ an Matthew nr
Luxe z .r,,s,ug to com, TO Christ, whom
Won admit to L.. IN, E,yi3ur Of the lost be-
calI.r y,,u r1n not 1.!.,it other things. Won
are like 2 n,n Cut there in that Meditcr-
rauoiip rrun,et and to@sel in the Nolita
breakers, r.'fas;ug f. como ashore until he
can ,rn,d fine p;pro3 Of the broken shin
I hear b.,, say. ~ won't 90 in
on any If Ms. uI3ulls until I
know in what uar, of the shin they be-
lous. when can cot the wiudlass IN the
rich, MACE AN | IN. sails set and that keel
nice, y here. it belongs. and that floor tim
be,. rio,,t AMI :bc,e r,pns untanglcd, | will
90 @shnrr lprl an old sailor and know all
shon, .l.i.,. fn,. fnrt,, vn,,., and no soon "a
lean o... III, vessel aiIu,t in good shane I
win =. mo in - man driftino by on n
n.rle IF ,yon,l hears HIM and saws: You
vii drawn hcf,,.a Won oct thot shin recon-
etrnc,rJ Eatter 40 no / am doing I know
nothIo1 about shins. and never saw one be-
e., m, on h,,rI this and 7 can not
c,ri,n a s.ro,,n INT lam mning ashore on
~, sl,:,-orod t;,,ba,,i, Tho man in the
o4,f,,,, ,,,L,o +rv;no "a rrond his shin roas
6or.. T'na man ,vbo trusted IN the pIanlz
- s.,,.,l n INV. hrother lot vonr smashed
mn av.tam of iheolCrv 90 TO the bottom
wh,,n Won come in on a splinterad spar.
s.S, M, On broken 1jcccs of the ship"
Won, may, ,,a+ ali vour difficulties settled
-, C,,.t.,iti tl, ,,,',-noti, Itolian GOT bis
- n,.,3o WHEN ~, war hrtween
I5nstr.a and Sardinia broke ont he was uy-